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Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1870), 1877-02-13

Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1870), 1877-02-13 page 1

I VOL. XXXVIII. COLUMBUS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1877. NO. 37. SIcBERT & LILLEY. an! Bock Manufacturers, IVlaters, BliiiJoi-s, Staiionara And Legal Blank Publishers. BOOK BINDING every description, by the Edition or Binglb Volume. OFKMA tflOBSEI liCILINM4 (UpStlkiSU aprl tlOI.&lMUUH. Ohio Merchant Tailoring Co., MERCHANT TAILORS, AHD D1AL111H IK Itenti' Fine Famishing Goods, jVo. 13 SOUTH HIGH ST., (Opera Koubb Block), COLUMBUS, 0. JNO. IUOH, supt. and Treas. J. BUNTING. Foreman. myl ly GEO. T.DUVALL, MERCHANT TAILOR, 157 SOUTH HIGH 8T. augl7 ly lp Office: llltfli, I'rarl and Chapel His. J. M. COMI-Y. A. W. FRANCISCO. COMLY & FRANCISCO, FCUMSHEilS AND I'RUPHIETtiHB. JAMES M. COMLY. - Editor. OFFICIAL. PAPER OF THE CITY LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY. Cong ress. Feb. 12. Senate The Senate proceeded to the ball of tbe House at 2:20 p. m., and returned to its chamber at 4i20 p. m. A resolution providing for an attachment for 0. 0. Jordan, cashier of the Third National ..Bankjjt-Jlwe-yorkr-wbo had failed to appear before the committee on Privileges and Elections and produce the accounts of S. J. Tilden, W. T. Pelton and A. S. Hewitt with the bank, was laid over one day under objection.. Mouse Mr. Field submitted an order to the effect that the electoral vote of the State of Florida shall not be counted in conformity with the decision of the Electoral Commission, but that the votes of the Democratic electors of that State shall be counted. Amendments and substitutes were offered, but voted down.aud several members engaged in discussion. Mr. Carr, Democrat, of Indiana, nude a speech asserting bis conviction lhat under the facts behind the Governor's .certificate the vote of Florida should be returned for Tilden, but holding that the Democratic majority had no right to complain at the decision of the Electoral Commission. Ho charged that in passing the electoral hill the Democrats of the House had been ignorantly or corruptly recreant to tho confidence imposed in them, .and fuithlees to the trusts confided in them. The order submitted by Mr. Field was finally adopted, and soon afterward the Senate joined the House in joint convention for the purpose of proceeding with the electoral count. Florida was counted for Hayes, Georgia and Indiana for Tilden, Illinois, Iowa and Kansas for Hayes, and Kentucky for Tilden. Three certificates from Louisiana were presented: 1. For HayeB electors, signed by Governor Kellogg. 2. For Tilden electors, signed by McEnery, as Governor. 3. For Hayes electors, authenticated toy Secretary of State. Senator McDonald submitted objections to the Hayes certificates on the following grounds : That the! Hayes electors were not duly elected; that Kellogg, who signed the certificate, was not Governor; that the Returning Board was without Jurisdiction on account of fe-fusing to lilt a vacancy; that a true compilation of votes would 'have Bhown Tilden's election; that the Board had ottered to sell the vote of Louisiana; and that tw of the .Republican elector? held offices of trust under .the United States. Mr. Gibson submitted objection to the Hayes certificates on the following grounds : That the Louisiana (Government was not Republican; that the talleged canvass was fraudulent and void, and that some of the Republican electors were ineligible on account of holding State offices. Mr. Woodsubiuitted an objection to the Hayes certificates uu the ground thlt the electors were not elected as provided by the Legislative. Mr. Howe submitted an objection to the Tildpn .certificate on the ground that there was no .oidenee that tho Tilden electors had been uppuinted according to law, while there was conclusive evidence that they were not; and 'that there was no evidence that McEnery 'was Governor, while there was conclusive evidence that Kellogg was Governor, and was recognized as Governor by all the State and National departments. The Louisiana cer- tificates, with the uccorapanying papers and objections, were referred to tie Electoral v'louimissiou, and the Senate returned to its chamber The House amended its rules so as .'O provide that, pending the electoral count, aM when the House is not engaged therein, it shall proceed at twelve o'ctock on each calcldar day, after recess from th day preceding, with businesi as though the legislative day n'sri expired by adjournment. Indications for Tennessee and Ohio Vol-,ley Continued northeast winds, veering to leasterly; colder, followed by warmer and partly cloudy weather and rising barometer. tijile of Jarne Uordou Bennett's Kennel. Mr. James Gordon Bennett's kennel was old in New York on Wednesday. A epleDtlid Gordon setter dog, three years old, that coat Mr. Bennett $1000, sold for $26, and a Gordon Better bitch that cost $1000, Bold for $12.50. Four English mastiffs brought from $12 to $14 apiece, while two noble Newfoundland dogs, highly bred, and said to have cost a large sum, sold for a good deal leas than their value. A pug brought $25, while of a lot of spaniels only one brought $25, the other Belling at prices ranging from $15 to $20. The sale took place, it is said, under instructions cabled to this country iby Mr. Bennett, and it is reported that Mr. Bennett's staMi will Boon be Bold un-der the hammer. '"An, parson, I wish I could carry my gdld with roe," said a dying man to hie pastor. "It might melt," was the consoling answer. BY TELEGRAPH TO THE OHIO STATU JOURNAL WASHINGTON. Florida Counted for Hayes and Wheeler. Georgia, Illinois, lndiana,lowa, Kansas and Kentucky Disposed of. Louisiana Certificates Referred to the Electoral Commission,Which Will Proceed to Business at Eleven o'clock To-day. Why the Illinois Certificate Was Not Objected to. Full Report of tbe Action in Joiut fjoiivention, And a Comprehensive Statement of Ob' jeotions to the Louisiana Certificates. Proceedings of (lie Electoral Coin uiiaHlon. Washington, Feb. 12. The Electoral Commission was culled to order at 4:30 p. m., and received the certificates and accompanying papers in the .case of Louisiana from the presiding officer of the joint session. Upon arrival of the various counsel, Field, Campbell, Trumbull, Carpenter, Merrick, Hoadly and Green for the Democratic side of the question, and Evarts, Matthews, Shellabarger and Stoughton for the Republicans, the presiding Justice inquired who would represent the ob jectors. Mr. Field responded that Senator McDonald, and Mr, Jeuks, of the House, would appear as objectors to certificates Nob. 1 and 3. Mr. Evarta announced that Mr. Howe, of the Senate, and Mr. Hurlbut would appear as objectors to certificate No. 2. The Commission adjourned until 11 a. in. to-morrow. Why No Objection Was Hails to Illinois.Washington, Feb. 12. Representative Springer had prepared objections to counting the vote of George 1). Chaffee, one of the Hayes electors of Illinois, on the ground that Chaffee was a Commissioner of the Circuit Court of the Uniled States within and for tbe Southern District of Illinois at the time of his appointment as elector, and at the time of hie voting, on the 6th of December. Springer was iu possession of record evidence of the fact, duly certified by the court, and with a further certificate that Chaffee had not resigned, and waa Blill exercising the functions of the ottice. Springer was advised that a case equally as clear as that of Chaffee would be presented to the Commission iu Louisiana, a case which would thus obtain .the decision by tbe Com-mission, and afterward by the two houses. If objections were filed to Chaffee this Commission could not decide the case, as there is only one certificate from j that State. Besides, the Senate might re-fust) to sustain the objection to Chaffee's vote, and this refusal might prejudice the decisiop in the case of the ineligible elector iu Louisiana. Hence Springer, with the advice and approbation of his friends, withheld his objection to Chaffee's vote. MincellaueouH from the National Capital. CALL i'OR BEBEMPTION. Washington, Feb. 12. The acting Secretary of the Treasury to-day issued the thirty ninth call for the redemption of 5 20 bonds of 1865, May and November. The call is for ten millions, of which seven millions are coupons and three millionB TegiBtered bonds. The principal and interest will be paid at the Treasury on and aftef the 12th of May next. Interest ceases ou i'uat day. Following are descriptions of the bonds: Coupons of $500 No. 3161 to 3580, both inclusive; $1000 No. 70,-551 to 79,000, both inclusive. Kegister-ed bonds of $50 No. 41 to 450, both inclusive; $100 No, 5301 to 5950, both inclusive; $500 No. 3601 to 3800, both inclusive; $1000 No. 18,351 to 14,800, both inclusive; $5000 No. 5101 to 5350, both inclusive; $10,000 No. 9301 to 9750, both inclusive. SOUTHERN pacific railroad. The Department of the Interior has received a certificate of the completion of the fifty-mile section of the Southern Pacific railroad in California, oil the Yuma division, and two sections of twenty miles each on the Tulare division. The Commissioners report that the road is progressing eastward, and the track will probably cross the Colorado river at Fort Yuma, into Arizona, by (be middle of March. XI.IVIU Congress Second Nesxlou. Washington Feb. 12. SENATE. The session was resumed at 10 o'clock, Willi but few Senators present. In response to a question of Mr. Davis, President Ferry said it would not be in order to take a recess except on a question raised in joint convention. No business waB transacted up to noon, the Senate awaiting notification from the House thnt that body was ready to resume joint session to continue tbe count. At 2i20 the Clerk of the House appeared at the Bar of the Senate and announced the decision of the House that the counting of tbe vote of Florida shall not proceed in conformity with the decision of the Electoral Commission, and also notified the Senate that the House was now ready to meet the Senate in mint meeting. Tue Senate then proceeded to tbe hall of the House. The Senate returned to its chamber about 4:25 p. m., when legislative business was re surud. Mr. Mitchell, from the committee on Triv ileees and Elections, submitted a resolution providing for tbe issue of an attachment for Conrad C. Jordan, Cashier of the Third National Bank of New York, he having failed to appear before the committee and produce the accounts of Samuel J. Tilden, William T. Pelton and A. B. Hewitt with that bank. Mr. Saulsbury objected to the considera tion ot the resolution to-aay, ana it was laid aver nntil to-morrow. He said be objected tfi the resolution because it was not reported by unanimous consent of the committee on Privileges and Elections, Besides there were matters connected with it which should be inquired into before any such resolution waa By unanimous consent it was understood that no business should be transacted by tbe Senate between 10 and 12 o'clock a. m. during the time the Electoral Commission have the Louisiana case under consideration. The Senate then went into Executive session. When the doors were re-opened it took a recess till 10 o'clock to-morrow. HOUSE. The session was resumed at 10 o'clock. Mr. McOrary rose to open discussion on the objection to the decision of the Electoral Commission. Mr. Clymer raised the point that there was no quorum present. It was then agreed that debate should not begin til 10. At that hour Mr. Field offered the following: Ordered, That counting the electoral vote from Fforida shall not proceed in conformity with the decision of the Electoral Commission, but that the votes of Call, Tounge, Hilton and Bullock be counted as the votes from the State of Florida, for President and Vice President. Mr. Hale moved an amendment: Ordered, That the counting of the electoral vote from the State of Florida shall proceed in conformity with the decision of the Electoral Commission. Mr. Knott offered as a substitute an order reciting the language of the Electoral act, that the Commission might inquire into such petitions, depositions and other papers as shall by the Constitution and now existing law be competent ; reciting also the fact that in the Florida case the Commission had de cided and determined that no evidence would be received and considered which had not been submitted to the two houses joint convention by the President of the Senate; tnat certincate NO. l, mat ot me Hayes electors, contained no evidence what ever, while certincates noi. i ana i, ot the Tilden electors, did contain evidence, fully and specifically showing that the latter had been duly elected and appointed as electors; and therefore ordering that the decision of tbe Commission and grounds thereof be re manded and recommitted to the Commission, with a request that the same be so corrected as explained: and that the Commission be further requested to furnish in detail tho true reasons ot its aecisioD, so tnat tne House may be enlightened as. to the course it ought to pursue in the disebnrge of its duties, and that in the meantime the votes of the Hayes electors be not counted. Mr. Hale made a point of order that un der the Electoral Commission law it was the imperative duty of the House, at the end of the two hours debate, to vote on the main question, which was whether the votes should be counted iu conformity with the decision, and that nothing in the shape of delay, in whatever way presented, could now arrest the wheels ot its decision. Mr. !Wilson- of Iowa added to Mr. Hale s point ot order tnat tne House couia reter nothing to the Commission that would re quire at least concurrent action. Mr. wood ot new lorK declared tnat any intimation of a desire on the part of the Democratic side ot the House to interpose any factious opposition to any decision of the electoral Commission was entirely gratuitous and unsupported by anything that bad taken place. Mr. Hale -Has anything been said this morning to indicate any charge of that kind ? Mr. Wood The gentleman has just spoken of delay, and has intimated that there is an intentional disposition on tne part ot me Mouse to delay action. 1 can assure tue gentleman that there is no such intention. While we are ready, in good faith, to carry out in nil respects the Electoral Commission law, and the result that may be reached in pursuance of it, still at the same time we de mand the right ot tree expression ot opinion. Dir. Knott contested tne point ot order, and thought there was nothing in tbe law wtiicu prevented tne House, witn the con currence of the Senate, from remanding back to the Electoral Commission for their further consideration the decision which it had made in the Florida case, in order that it might have an opportunity to explain the glaring inconsisteucies which existed in that decision.Mr. Banks said that under the provisions of the electoral act the House waa compelled to give tin affirmative or negative vote on the decision of the Commission. It would not be respectful to the Commission to remand the decision to it. The Speaker overruled tbe point of order made by Mr. Hale, but sustained Uat made by Mr. Wilson, holding that there was nothing in the Electoral Commission law that authorized the recommittal of the question back to the Commission, and also ruling thit it was not competent for one House to refer a bill, or any other matter, to an out side Commission. The substitute offered by Mr. Knott was, therefore, not in order. The House thereupon proceeded to the discussion of the objection to the decision of the Electoral Commission. Mr. McCrary addressed the House in sup port of the report of the Commission. He held that the ruling of the Commission was abundantly supported by the most cogent reasons, and mat to uaye rmeo omerwise would have been to assertjurisdiction to In quire into and overturn tbe action of all mates in the appointment of their electora, and to institute proceedings in the nature of action of quo warranto to try the title of every one ot the persons appointed as such. The bill of 1800, drafted, reported and advo- oaud by John Marshall, afterward uniet Justice of the United States, embodied tbe views of that great constitutional lawyer upon this question. After providing fur this grand committee, it defined their jurisdiction in these words: "And the persons thus chosen shall form joiut committee, and shall have power to examinejnto all disputes relative to the election of President and Vice President, of the United Slates, other than such as might relate to the nurnbsr of votes by wnicn electors may nave been appoinieu. If n lodgment in an interior oourt in rlon- dn, ruudered on tbe 27th of January, in an action of quo warranto, could annul tho vote ot thai state, cast on the btn or De cern be r, it followed that similar judgments, in any or all other States, might be certified to tne f resident ot tne senate, and must irove n the count. Hewantedtoknow if bv an ex pott facto judgment in one State, one party snoutu Becure an advantage, wny oy a similar movement in another State, a corresponding advantage might not be sought for by auother party, and claimed as a result ot bucu a policy tuui tuen, insteau of counting the votes under the Constitution and law at the time prescribed, it would be come necessary to count the judgments quo warranto rendered in the various States, and enter into innuirv as to the regularity and conclusiveness ot these judicial proceedings. There mult be authority somewhere and at some time to decide who wire appointed electors, and the only safe, or sound, or Constitutional rule that could be found was that udopted by the Commission, to-wit: That the decision made by the proper State au-thoritv. prior to the time fixad by the Con' stitution and law for electing President and Vice President of the United States, was final, and not subject to be set aside by Con gress. The power of Congress was to count, not to reiect. duly certified votes ot states. Mr. Tucker followed on tbe opposite side. He said the members of the Commission had taken the oath to render judgment according to the Constitution ana law. Tbe Com mission, in passing on the eligibility of Humphreys, bad declined to pass on tbe question of tbe validity of the vote of an incompetent elector. Did tbe Commission mean to decide that ineligibility of an elector was to have no effect on the validity ot bis vote it the state appointed an ineligi' ble elector? Was he, notwithstanding, to be declared by the Commission and by the two houses to be a competent elector, and bis vote to be a valid vote? If so, then the act of the CanvasBlng Board Of the State was valid, and tbe Constitution, cuod hoc, wasvoH. In regard to the main Question tbe decision of the Commission waa to the effect that the only yoice permitted to speak for a State in the matter of a Presi dential election was the voice ot a canvass-inc board, and of an executive, and that tbe voice of the judiciary and Legislature must be hushed into silence. He contended that, all the organism of a State must speak its voice. The debate was continued by Messrs, Banks and Frye, in favor of the report of tne uommissiou, and Messrs. springer and nuru iu uppuuiLiuu. Mr. Carr said: I have no hesitancy saying that my convictions are that under me palpable tacts behind the Governor ) certincate the vote of the State of Florida should have been returned for Tilden and HendrickB; but, sir, at the same time I hold that the Democratic majority of this House has no moral right to complain that this Commission has rendered a partisan decision in reporting the tour electoral votes Florida for Hayes and Wheeler. While assert that this decision is contrary to the tacts ana contrary to tne win or a large majority of the people of the United States, yet I as boldly assert that the wrong is charge able to a cause further back than tbe Commission. The wrong rests upon the shoulders ot those who established this par tisan tribunal. When the Democratic ma- jority of this House adopted the law, with a lull Knowledge mat tne majority ot tue uommission would be uepuoucan, governed oy Republican instincts, controlled by re publican interests, warned by Republican biases, ana movea oy rtepublican motives. thev deliberately abandoned every claim which the Democratic masses asserted to the control of our National affairs. The Com missioners have done no more nor less than what could or should have been expecled or required of them. You erected a political tribunal, invested it witn political attributes, and gave tnnm political questions to determine, which they have settled from a politi cal standpoint. Being Republican, they believed mat tue Republican candi date for the Presidency was and ought to be elected. In making their declaration they have been true and faithful to their political sentiments, education and as sociations, fto legal wrong can attach to them for this, but when you, as Democrats, deliberately put such power over such Ques tions in tho hands of a tribunal so constructed, you commit a bold and darincr wrong to your pretended political convictions, and as suredly to your political associates, whose political sentiments and rights you betrayed and auandoned to your political adversaries, I arise to re'uind the Democratic majority that in common decency your votes on this measure have estopped you from indulging iu even one word of criticism against the de cision ot that tribunal. Mrs, it is your own offspring. You biought it into being. You gave it lite and power, and you alone are responsible for the result. It is no excuse for you to assert that you did not anticipate such a result; that you expected higher and better things trom your toundling. i ou had no more right to expect a tribunal bo constituted to produce a different result than to expect a thorn bush to bring forth hgs. Nor will so weak an apolosry savt you from the just condemnation which your betrayed and outraged constituency will forever heap upon your treacnerous neacis. Laughter acd applause.l No, sirs, the wrong is a great and burning outrage. It lies at your hands, and your hands alone. Nor will the Democratic people be slow in ascertaining tne true source ot their discomfiture and defeat. It may subserve vour purpose for a brief time to attempt to shield your selves unuer cover or me nouow denuncia tions of your tribunal, as the cry of "stop thief" for a moment may delude the officers of the law, but when the mad populace shall have vented unmerited anger upon this tribunal for a brief hour, it will seek the true object of its just indignation, and the blame will at last lie where it properly belongs. Tbe few only who had moral courage to stand here upon this floor, and amid the derision and contumely of the Democratic majority, dared to warn you of the inevitable results cf that day's work, nave tbe moral right to complain ot the end of this day's labor; but, sirs, while they have deep regrets as to the action of the Commission, they have deep and bitter de nunciations and condemnation to heap upon the heads of those who, claiming to be leaders of the great Democratic party, in this trying hour of its existence, have provetlJbeniselveB either incompetent from iguoranco or unworthy for base reasons. Renewed laughti r and applause on the Republican side Here, then, in the name of the Democracy of the whole country, I ab solve that Commission from all charges, save it may be that of an honest mistake, and iu the name of the same great power I denounce the mnjurity of this Home as being responsible for the wrong and recreance, ignorantly or corruptly recreant to the confidence which has been imposed in them, and faithligs to the trusts confided iu them. Applause. After Mr. Carr's speech, Mr. Walker, of Virginia, said he was one of the Democrats who had supported the electoral b-ll in good faith, and be would say to the gentleman from Indiana (Carr) that it would t?.ko more than him and a few Democrats who voted with him against that measure to read the majority of the House out of the Democratic party. Mr. r- leld said the decision ot this tribunal, as it has been made, is entitled to no respect. it is as unfounded in morals as it is unfound ed in law, and injurious and pernicious in its (Oi Si qtieuces. The spectacle of successful villainy is corrupting in proportion to the extent of the theater on which it is enacted, and to the prize which it wins. The Presidency oi I he United States has never yet been won by fraud. If it is won now, the example will be more injurious to our good name, and more corrupt to our people than all the speculations, the robberies and frauds of all our history. Tne debate closed at no, and the House proceeded to voto. Mr. Hale's amendment wasreiected 97 to 167, and Mr. Field's resolution was adopted. It wai then ordered that the Clerk inform the Senate of tho action of the House, and also that the Hou;e is now ready to meet the Senate in lue bull ot the House. At 2:25 p. in. the Senators arrived and took their places. The presiding officer rose audsuid: ' The joint meeting of Congress resumes its session. The two hous e sepa rately have considered and determined the objection submitted by a member of the nouse iu iqe uuc-ision oi ine commission on the certificates from the State of Florida. The Clerk of the Senate will now read the decision of the Senate. The decision of the Senate having been read by its Cleik, and that of tbe House by its Clerk, the presiding officer said : "The two bouses not concurring in ordering otherwise, the decision of the Commission will stand unreversed. The counting will uow proceed in conformity with the decision of the Commission. The tellers will announce the vote of Florida." Senator Allison, one of the tellers, there upon announced that the State of Florida had given four votes for R. B. Hayes of Ohio, as President, and fonr votes for William A. Wheeler, of New York, as Vice I, ' r reameui. The Vice President then onened the cer tificate from the State of Georgia, and banded it to the tellers. It was read by Representative Cook, of Georgia. The presiding officer asked whether there was any objec tion to me vote ot Ueorgia. None being made be announced that the vote would be counted and directed the tellers to declare it. Mr. Cook then declared that the State of Georgia bad given 11 votes for Samuel J. Tilden, of New York, as President, and 11 votes for Thdmas A. Hendricks, of Indiana, as Vice President. Next followed, in succession, the State of Illinois, witnzi votes tor Hayes and Wheeler; Indians, with 15 votes for Tilden and Heudncks; Iowa, with 11 votes for Hayes and Wheeler; Kansas, with 5 votes for Hayes apdWheelet; and Kentucky, with 12 votes for Tilden and Hendricks. Then came tbe certificate from the State of Louisiana, snowing eight votes for Hayes and Wheeler, the presiding officer stating that tbe certincate nad been received by mail, and that no corresponding one had been received by messenger. The messenger appointed for that purpose was Thomas C. Anderson, one oi me Returning Board, This was authenticated by Kelloirn- as Gov ernor, he being himself one of the electors. ' Tbe certificate having been read, the nre- Biding officer handed to the tellere another certificate trom tne same State, with a corresponding one received by mail, showing eight votes for Tilden and Hendricks. This was authenticated by McEnery as Governor of tbe State. Still a third certificate was opened and read, corresponding with on having been received by mail, with votes for Hayes and Wheeler, authenticated by Des Londe, Secretary of State. The presiding officer opened and presented another certificate, received by mail, nofcorresponding one having been received by ruessenger. Mr. Stone, one of the tellers, proceeded to read it, butit wasobvinus I rum th first sentence it was a mere burlesque. It 'commenced by certifying that John Smith bad been chosen elector from the First district; John Smith,' No. 1, from the Second ; John Smith, No. 2, from the Third ; John Smith, No. 3, from the Fourth; John nmitn. No. i, trom the I' ltlli; John Smith, NoiB, from the Sixth ; and John Smith, A ami John Smith B, eleclotors at laige. When the calling had proceeded thus far MrlSargent rose.and said it was obvious that tuul certincate was not bona tide. Toe presiding officer said it was his duty to submit all papers received by him. He asked whether the paper should be suppressed. Voices No; read it. The reading was proceeded with, to tbe great amusement ot tne audience, ft followed the usual formali ties, showing that John Smith had been only cnosen as cnairman, and Jonn smith o as aergeant-at-Arms, and that John Smith No, 1 and John Smith A were appointed tellers: that eight votes of the State had been cast tor .Peter Coooer. ot New York, and Sam uarr. At this stage of the reading Senator Mc Donald suggested that the two houses should not be compelled to listen to the readinir ine presiding otticer directed tbe address on the envelope to be read. It read: "To the Vice President of the United Suites, Washington: vote of the Electoral Collece of tne State of Louisiana for President and Vies President 1876." He then directed the telleis to proceed with the reading. After a few more sentences had been read, Mr. Hoar inquired whether the Chair held that it was not iu order to dispense with the further reading ot the paper. ine presiding omcer said that lie asKed unanimous consent, but that objection had oeen made. Mr. Hoar reauired that any person object ing should rise in his place and do so. Mr. Miller (rising) As this is a burlesque act, I object. the reading was then proceeded with to us close, it purporting to be signed by John Bmitn, uompany no. i. Bulldozers, uovern- or of Louisiana, and winding up with the motto : "aucn is life in Louisiana " Subsequently the nresidine? officer directed tne paper to be omitted trom tbe proceed ings of the joint convention. senator McDonald submitted an obiection to the Haves and Wheeler certificates. The objection waB based on the ground that the nayes electors bad not been duly elected; that their election had been certified by imam r. Kellogg, wno claimed to be but was not in tact tiovernor ot the State of Louisiana; and because the Returning Board was without jurisdiction for tbe reus in that the laws ot Louisiana conlerred no power on the Returning Board to canvass and compile votes, since they were constituted by four of nve persons required by law, since these tour were oi tue same political party, and since there was a vacancy in said Board which the four members bad refused to fill ; because the four members of the Returning Board had full knowledge that the true compila- lon ot the votes would have Bhown that the Tilden electors had been duly elected ; because ; said boai d had offered for money to sen tne vote ot Louisiana, ana because H. a Levy and H. Brewster hid held offices of trust under the United States at the time of their appointment as electors. The objection is signed by McDonald, Saulsbury, Bogy, Senators, and Jenks, Gibson, Tucker, ltllis ana Morrison, members. Mr. Gibson also sent up olnections to the Hayes and Wheeler certificates because: list, tne government or Louisiana was not Republican in form; second, no canvass was made on which tho certificates of election were issued; third, au alleged canvaes ot votes was an usurpation, fraudulent and old; tonrin, some ot the electors were inel igible by tho laws of Louisiana, and were disqualified from being electors or holding State offices, Kellogg being acting de facto Governor, JoHVain Supervisor of Registration, Marks District Attorney, and burch a member of the State Senate, a member of the Board or Control ot the State of Peniten tiary, and administrator of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, and Treasurer ot the School Board ot East Baton Rouge; and because JoD'rain was specially disqualified by the thirteenth section of the act of the Legislature, July, 1874, which provides that no Supervisor of Registration shall be eligible to any office at that election; and because Jolfrain was at the Inst election Supervisor of Registration for the parish of Point Coupee. This objection was signed by Senators Saulsbury, McDonald and Teller, and Representatives Jenks, Tucker, Gibson, Field, Levy and Lgbort. Mr. Wood, ot New York, submitted a further objection to the Hayes and Wheeler certificates, on the ground that the electors were not elected as providedjby the Legislature.Mr. Howe submitted sa objection to the ilden and Hendricks certificates on the ground that there was no evidence that those electors pad been appointed in such manner as the Legislature directed, while there was evidence conclusive in law that either of them had been so appointed: also, on the ground that there was no evidence that McEnery was Governor of jouisiana in the year 1876. while there was conclusive evidence that Keilogj was during the year 1876, and for several years nor thereto, tiovernor of that State, and was recogniaed as such by the Judicial and Legislative departments of Louisiana and by all departments of the Government of the United States '1 he Presiding Officer " Are there further objectiuns to the vote of the State of Louisiana f" Alter a pause: "There be ing no further objection, all tho certificates trom that state, with the papers accompanying the same, together with the ob jections, will now be submitted to the Electoral uommission tor nulumeet and decision. Tbe Senate will now withdraw to its chamber." The Senate thereupon withdrew. Mr. Cox, from the committee on Rules. reported back a resolution so amending the rules of the House that pending the count of the electoral vote, and when the House is not engaged therein, shall, on assembling every calendar day, after recess from the day preceding, proceed at twelve o'clook with its business as though the legislative day had expired by adjournment. He explained that there were but seventeen working days oeiore me enu or me session; that there were eleven of the regular appropriation bills undisposed of; that there were 241 bills on the privatp calendar and fifty on tho public calendar; that there were thirty special orders; that the bill to pay intereston the public debt of the District of Columbia and the Missisiippi levee bill were before the House, and that iu order to get through this mass or business the resolntion should be adopted. After being amended so as to prevent the uaviuuuu iiuiu unci teruitr in any way niiu tne counting ot the electoral votes, it waB adopted, and the House took a recess till ten o'clock to-morrow. Moody and Nanbry Invited to Cincinnati.Cincinnati, Feb. 12. At a meeting of tue Jrivangelical Ministerial Associa tion to-day a total attendance of nearly 17,000 was reported at revival meetings during tbe pant month, and the General committee was urged to exercise diligence in Becuring the presence of Moody and Sankey for a series of meetings next fall, Burned to Deatb. Omaha, Feb. 12. Caroline Lambert, aged iui years, died this afternoon. Th morning, while dressing a sore arm with kerosine, she spilled some on her clothes, which she accidentally ignited. She was burned almost to a crisp. Mardl Gris. Memphis, Feb. 12. The number of visitors already here la unparalleled in the history of this city. All the leading illustrated papers have reoreaentativpa here and a number of the prominent morning papers. LITTLEFEELD. Ira n. Ulrrord Cornea to tbe From How (be I.onlnlaBH t'lcrfc Wickered With tbe nemoerata. ( memo, Feb. IIS. The Journal's Davenport, Iowa, special saya Hon. Jra M. Oirlbid, who Clerk Littlefield swore tnertd him money to go to Washington with the Vernon parish return, Baying he couiu get SIUU.UUO trom tbe National Ke publican oommitleefor the suppression of tnat evidence, this morning publishes a denial ot tne Btory. He says Latlleheld vainly tried to Bell out tohim. Littlefield said prominent Democrats, including uovemor fufmer, bad approached him and offered him large sums of money to disclose what he knew of the Returning fioarcl. lie neinga Kenubucan. however. preferred to keep silence for a less sum than the Democrats offered, tiovernor Palmer approached him in various wavn, and intimated that he could get $100,000 for his information. Gilford says he is ready to make these statements under oath. Revenue ltlfnciiHies In Norlb Caro lina. New York, Feb. 11. A North Caro-lina special says : While the United Slates CominiHsioner, Capt.W. G. B. Morris, waH engaged in the trial of Walker Newman for alleged violation of the revenue laws, with .Deputy Marshals Harkins and Mer rill in attendance, the court was startled by tbe sound ot firearms, and in a few mo ments the house was surrounded by armed men who began indiscriminate firing into the room. The Commissioner and Captain Merrill Med, but Captain Harkins drew his revolver and fired upon his as sailants, wounding one named risber. In turn he was Bhot down and would have been killed but for Newman and George Kliodes. finher was brought to the Hen dersonville jail, His brothers made an attack later upon the jail, but were put to night, Willi a loss of Wash, .Fisher mor tally wounded. Coal complication. WlLKRSliAKBE. Pa . Feb. 12. The an nouncement here at headquarters "that the Lehigh and Wilbeabarre Coal company had applied tor a Receiver was not entirely unexpected, though the mines will be worked as usual. Philadelphia, Feb. 12. It is under stood E. W. Clark will act aa .Receiver of the Lehigh and WiJkesbarre Coal com pany and Chancellor Williamson and the Secretary of the company as assignees. There are rumors that a Receiver has been appointed for the New Jersey Central railroad. ItalloonlNl Iu Trouble. Memphis, Feb. 12. Considerable ap prehension is felt for the safety of Pro fessor King, of Philadelphia, who made an ascension in a mammoth balloon from this city at five o'clock this after noon. When last seen the balloon was going in the direction of Little Rock, over Arkansas bottom, and he will be forced to stay up all night, as the night is dark and tbe wind high. )nMeuNions Louisville, Feb. 12 T. Walston and Messrs. W. H. Walker&Co., large whisky firms, have suspended. Liabilities of Walston, $90,000; assets, $70,000; Walk er's not known, The trouble of tho last named firm waa brought about by the failure of Walston and others. They hope Boon to resume. Hotel Change lu Clncluuiill. Cincinnati, Feb. 12. Mr. A. G Coone, formerly of the Grand Hotel, has, purchased Mr. James L,yn s luterest in theUurnet House. The new firm will be known as Dinkle, Sayler& Coone. BY MAIL AND TELEGRAPH. The President has nominated Richard A. Watts for United States Attorney for Wyoming. At Memphis, yeBterday, twenty thou sand people witnessed the opening Mardi Gras ceremonies. Mrs. Gottlieb Vogele was horribly mangled by dogs, near Newport, Ken tucky, Saturday night. Deputy Marshal H. H. Hughes waa killed while attempting to make an arrest near Independence, Missouri, on Satur day. In New York, Saturday night, Fred Herlfelder, aged eighteen, was stabbed and killed by William Aberaty, aged nineteen. The Circuit Court has issued a final de cree giving the city of St. Louis all the works and properly of the gas company, and $40,000. The Treasury Department has pro hibited the importation of neat cattle and hides from Germany, ou account of tne rinderpest. A dispatch from Carterville, Geoigia, announces the killing of Lieutenant Mc- Intyre, ot the second Infantry, by illicit distillers in ambush. James L. Johnson, formerly a member of Congress from the Second district of Kentucky, committed suicide yesterday by Bbooting himself. Ill health is assigned as the came of the act, Samuel Smith, a farmer, was robbed near Franklin, Indiana, Saturday night, by John Cochran. Smith's skull was broken, and he will probably die Boon. Cochran has not been captured. The engineers examining the founda tions of the Washington monument, will suggest the tearing down of the present structure, and the removal of the stones, to the circle at Massachusetts avenue and Fourteenth street. Tbe Burlington Hawkeye humorist pro nounces the rumor that he was about to start a paper of his own as a base fabrica tion of bis enemies. He makes an em phatic denial, and says : "Fie has had it, He had all he wanted of it. So had the sheriff." The New Jersey Central railroad is financial difficulties. Its capital stock is $20,500,000, and it has paid dividends on this, since ISbU, amounting to $14,4UO,000: yet the greedy recipients of these divi dends now refuse to come forward and lend the road $3,000,000 to put it on its teet again. A Washington dispatch to the Pittsburg Commercial sbvb: Party leaders have been looking over the political situation and the state of legislative business, and the concluBion is becoming more general every day that, at the present rate of pro gress, it will be impossible to finish up the more urgent business of Congress, and that an extra session is inevitable. This will, doubtless, be called in a couple of days. William Green, convicted of the murder of his half brother, Samuel Marshall, was hanged at Pittsburg yesterday. On tbe scaffold he spoke a few words, and exhorted thoso present to put their truBt in God, as he had done! He thanked the jail warden and his spiritual advisers for their kindness, and Baid he hoped to meet therp all in heaven. He said : "The Lord Jesus Christ is waiting to receive my soul, and my heart is faxed on him, Oblo, IgnatiuB Fucbs, a notorious receiver of stolen goods, has been convicted In Cleveland, and will be sentenced to imprison ment in the Penitentiary this week, unless his case should be carried to a higher court. About 2 o'clock Sunday morning a fire was discovered in the job printing and iiook-binding establishment oi Sullivan x Parsons, in Zanesville, The buiidm und contents were entirely destroyed; in mired for $1500. The Morning Times was also printed in tbe same building, They lost all their type and material, on which they had insurance of $1000. The Morning Times will be issued from the Courier office for the present. Wishing to take every precaution for tbe safety ot audiences occupying the premises and for tbe protection of his property, Mr. A. C. Black, proprietor of the Upera House, has juat erected, com manding the whole space included in the stage, a system of copper sprinkling pipes, three in number, extending tne whole diatance crosswise the building, between and above the Hies, lhese pipes are con nected with a forty barrel tank under the roof, kept constantly filled, and are per forated thickly with small holes. By simply pulling a wire and fastening it to nook at one side of the Btage floor a fine spray ib thrown id every direction drenching scenery, Hies, furniture and all almost instantly, lbe pipes are ot cop per to guard against rust, and a second cistern ot W barrels capacity on the op posite Bide of the stage, can be connected with the one supplying the pipes, if neces nary, besides having a hose attachmen upon the stage. When the sprinkling apparatus waa tested the other day tho ahower which fell waa ' too much of a good thing," as the stage was speedily soaked iu every nook and corner. It is believed tnat danger from lire, directly, is tnus overcome and people may occupy the house to its full seating capacity, without fear of disaster from that source. On all occasions, in any public assem blage, if a panic is started the safest thing to do is to keep your seat. ispnnaheld Me public. Among the Oakland items in the San .Francisco Post of the 5th is the follow ing : In the Police Court this morning, S. Atkinson was in the prisoner s dock, charged with obtaining money under false pretenses, by means of a check on a bank n Springheld, Ohio, cashed by the Union Gold Bank, of Oakland. It appears that he was acquainted with a young lady who is sojourning at the house of A.C. Henry, tne rresulent ot the bank, and occasion ally vioited her. A week agolaat Saturday Atkinson called at the bank and said that he was short, and wished a small check cashed, saying at the same time that he was a partner of hia father and brother in a hotel in Springfield, Ohio, and that his check was all right. Mr. Henry told him an indorser was necessary, and Atkinson told him that the young lady would indorse for mi. which she, coming in shortly after ward, did. He obtained in this manner $75, and said he would visit the lady that evening, but instead, sent word that he would call on Monday, and failed also to keep this appointment. Instead of going to tne nouse ne went to Sacramento, where ue indulged Ireely in alcoholic stimulants, spent all his money, and telegraphed to Mr. Henry for $75, " to be sent by express. Instead of sending the money, Mr. Henry sent for him, as a telegram had been received from Ohio stating that uo money was there in bank belonging to Atkinson, and that he was a beat. His case will be examined by Judge Jayne on Wednesday next. Foreign. It is stated at Vienna that tbe Powers will probably not answer the Russian circular at all. A London dispatch says the recent crisis in the Roumanian Ministry was caused by the question whether Roumania should form a Russian alliance, or merely permit the Russian army to pass under protest. The Burmingham Post asserts that the Liberal leaders, after consultation, have determined to submit the motion declaring that it is the duty of England, in concert with European powers, or failing in this with Russia alone, to enforce upon Turkey the adoption of the necessary provisions for the security of Christians in the disturbed districts. CKILLIC0THE. Official Changes-Quiet at tbe Lutheran Cburcb Burglary. Chillicothe, Feb. 12, To the Editor of the Ohio Btate Journal : President William H. Scott, of the Ohio University, will lecture on "The Need of the Hour," at the Walnut Street Church, Thursday evening. The attendance at the entertainments given by Deakin's Liliputian burlesque troupe was large, and as yet we have heard nothing but good epoken of the performances. (Jol. fid win fearson, the Democratic County Clerk elect, to-day enters upon the routine of bis duties. His sureties are Messrp. L. G. Delano, W. A. Way- land and J. J. Vanmeter. Mr. Frank J. Esker, the efficient retiring Clerk, has ac-cepled the position of Deputy Sheriff, We are told that QUO car loads of cotton in expected to pass over the Marietta and Cincinnati railroad during the present week. Also, that upward of 4000 cars of other freight are to pass through here lnsido of the next tour weeks. All was quiet and serene at the German Lutheran Church on Sunday, and, from all accounts, "not a wave of trouble rolled across their peaceful breasts." We observed policemen sauntering in the vicinity, but as nothing occurred to mar the harmony of the meeting, their services were not required. About the hour of two o'clock Saturday morning lust Chief of Police Joseph IJeuschle, observing a light in Wm. H. Ringwald's grocery, on Paint street, and surmising that all was not right, organized hiniKi'lf into an investigating committee. His efforts were realized in the capture of a ten-year-old half-witted colored urchin named Will Jackson, who had juat emerged from the rear door with a paper sack "crammed" full of groceries amounting to three or four dollars. Mayor Mick bound hiin over to court in the huiu of $300; failing to obtain bail, he was placed in jail. Benidea pleading guilty, he also acknowledged himself as having been the person who entered the same place last full and stole a silver watch and thirty dollars worth of Dayton and Southeastern railroad notes. The former he threw into Paint creek and the latter he burned up. Nontbern democrats. The Washington 6orrespondeut of the Pittsburg Commercial says : It is very evident, from the opinions expressed even by ultra Democrats, that the Democrats feel that the responsibility of prolonging the Presidential controversy Would bring down such a force of con demnation by the industrial interests of the country, by Increasing the uncertainty and necessitating a new election, that they would gain nothing in the long run. The Southern Democrats show a disposition to act independently in the present emergency. Their past experience has demonstrated that their Northern friends DIED. Abbott In Santa Barbara, California, ou February 6th, Tikotuy D. Adbott, formerly of this city. Cot. Maooii K., wife of James Cole, Mondoy alternoon at 3 o'clock. Funeral services from Wesley- Chapel, Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. 2t Dispatch copy It, New Advertisements. 14th REGIMENT 0. N. G. riA A WILL MEET IN BOARD OF JJ XI Trade Rooms. Wednesday eve ning, February 14th, at 7:30 sharp, for nomination of officers. Company O will meet same time and place. O. S. AMMEL. teoia it" SEAJLEO I'ltOlHMAI.N T7lLL liE RECEIVED A THE OFFICIO TV oi tne city Clerk in Coluinbua, Ohio, Monday, 12th Day March, 18J7, At 12 o'clock noon, for furnishing the materials and doing the following work, lo-wit: ror building an 18-inch imiA kckot in Miu.l alley, from Viuo alley to Swan street; thence in Bwan street to Third street. bush bid must contain the full iiRma ol all tlm parties interested in the same, anil mu8t be ac companied with good and sufficient tecurily that if the bid is accepted t lie contract will tw entered into and the work faithfully performed. The I'lty Council reserves the right to reject any oral! bids, at diacrelion. JOJIAH K1NNEAK, fen'3 City Civil Engineer. are as a party entirely irresnoiisibln and unworthy of confidence. A meas ure is now on foot look in a to h coalition which will defeat the programme of the Northern Demo crats, if an attempt ia made to prolong the Presidential controversy over the 4th of March. A naner haa been prepared by a leading Southern Demo crat, and it is stated is already signed by loriyiour ooutnern democrats, pledging their voles against proloneini? the Presi. dential contest, provided a sufficient num- lier ot ItepublicaiiB will cast their votea for tho Texas Pacific bill to insure ita lassagc. This can easily be done, as the lends of the bill in both parties have Ireody sufficient strength, if it comes to-a vole, to pass it. Tbe consummation of such an arrangement would undoubtedly be tne beginning of a breaking off of the Democratic party South from the North- rn wing, and would insure a Bpeedy or ganization of a Republican party of the soutn, lea oy the best men of the Demo crats. Field's lan. The Washington correspondent of the inciunati Gazette gives some of the re- ulls of Democratic conference on the situation among them the following hoice gem : One other plan was sueaiated. which ia reported to have come from the fertile, ingenious, desperate, criminal lawyer, Dud- rieia; mat was, mat the Jilectoral Commission should be broken up by securing the resignation of all the Democratic members. It would not suffice that the Democratic JudgeR, for such, moat emphatically, Field and Clifford have proved themselves to be, should resign, The Electoral law provides that, in the case of the death of either of the Judges, the remaining Judges shall immediately fill the vacancies. No other Judges of the Supreme Court then would remain but the two Judges, Swayne and Hunt, who would be eligible, both of whom are Republicans. The Democrats could gain nothing from any Buch experiment. But if the Democratic members of tbe Commission Bhould all resign, the House might absolutely refuse to fill their places, or consume bo much time filibustering, while ostensibly engaged in doing this, as to completely nullify the operations of the Electoral act and Tribunal until March 4. This plan received, it ia understood, the most earnest advocacy of Dudley Field, who claims to be the special representative of Tilden, and to have in charge the Democratic 'party, Nothing cottld be agreed upon definitely, Friday night, at either of their caucuses, except that the debate upon the Florida decision of the Tribunal should not be proceeded with yesterday, and that a recess should be taken until Monday. Meanwhile the plan was that the leaders of the Conference should decide how far they could go with the sinister scheme above referred to; to what extent they could defy the public sentiment of the country which approved the compromise plan, and bow far tbey could rely upon the massing of the Democratic strength of the House in favor of any such revolutionary proceeding. The programme here outlined was executed yesterday; tbe House met at 10 o'clock, and the Democrats moved an additional recess until 1 o'clock, no substantial reason being assigned except the declaration that such was the wish of the majority. CHilo Veteran Volunteer. To the Editor of the Cincinnati Commercial : Bellaib, O., Feb. 8, 1877. I observe that your correspondent from Urba na, in his account of the reunion of the Sixty-sixth Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, published in the Commercial of this date, states that the Sixtysixth regiment "was the first regiment to veteranize." In this my impression is that he is in error. By reference to the report of the Adjutant General of Ohio for the year 1864, 1 find that "the Twenlythird Regiment, Colonel R. B, Hayes commanding, was the first regiment in which re-enlistments began to be made, commencing as early as October, 1863, This regiment reorganized as a veteran regiment at Staunton, June 11, 1864, while on the famous Hunter raid." The number of veterans furnished by each regiment was very near equal, the Twentytbird furnishing 257, and the Sixty- sixth furnishing zb). In this connection it is interesting to recall the fact that the Thirlyninth regiment, Colonel E. F. Noyes commanding, furnished a larger number of veterans than any other regiment in the service from Ohio, its number being 534. B. R. C. Nlicrinieu ItPinocrnllc Trickery. Heeial Dispatch to the New York Times.) Washington, Feb. 10. The Congressional Record for to-day, which consists of no less than 200 pages, was not issued until late in the forenoon. It in mainly taken up by the report of Mr. Morrison's Louisiana committee. As was generally expected, it is a highly colored partisan document, which speaks of murders and outrages with the evident intention of trying to conceal them, and attempts to prove that the vote of the State was cast, and Bhould be counted, for Tilden and the Democratic State officers. George M. Beebe, of New York, is among tbe signers of the report. The document is printed in the Record bo-cause the appropriation for printing it in the usual form and manner is exhausted. By the trick of sending it to the Record, tho Democrats place their ex parte testimony before the Electoral Commission, while the minority report, made by the Republican members of the committee, is suppressed and not allowed to appear. The first gold discovered in California was at the root of a wild Dnion which a man was pulling for greens.

I VOL. XXXVIII. COLUMBUS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1877. NO. 37. SIcBERT & LILLEY. an! Bock Manufacturers, IVlaters, BliiiJoi-s, Staiionara And Legal Blank Publishers. BOOK BINDING every description, by the Edition or Binglb Volume. OFKMA tflOBSEI liCILINM4 (UpStlkiSU aprl tlOI.&lMUUH. Ohio Merchant Tailoring Co., MERCHANT TAILORS, AHD D1AL111H IK Itenti' Fine Famishing Goods, jVo. 13 SOUTH HIGH ST., (Opera Koubb Block), COLUMBUS, 0. JNO. IUOH, supt. and Treas. J. BUNTING. Foreman. myl ly GEO. T.DUVALL, MERCHANT TAILOR, 157 SOUTH HIGH 8T. augl7 ly lp Office: llltfli, I'rarl and Chapel His. J. M. COMI-Y. A. W. FRANCISCO. COMLY & FRANCISCO, FCUMSHEilS AND I'RUPHIETtiHB. JAMES M. COMLY. - Editor. OFFICIAL. PAPER OF THE CITY LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY. Cong ress. Feb. 12. Senate The Senate proceeded to the ball of tbe House at 2:20 p. m., and returned to its chamber at 4i20 p. m. A resolution providing for an attachment for 0. 0. Jordan, cashier of the Third National ..Bankjjt-Jlwe-yorkr-wbo had failed to appear before the committee on Privileges and Elections and produce the accounts of S. J. Tilden, W. T. Pelton and A. S. Hewitt with the bank, was laid over one day under objection.. Mouse Mr. Field submitted an order to the effect that the electoral vote of the State of Florida shall not be counted in conformity with the decision of the Electoral Commission, but that the votes of the Democratic electors of that State shall be counted. Amendments and substitutes were offered, but voted down.aud several members engaged in discussion. Mr. Carr, Democrat, of Indiana, nude a speech asserting bis conviction lhat under the facts behind the Governor's .certificate the vote of Florida should be returned for Tilden, but holding that the Democratic majority had no right to complain at the decision of the Electoral Commission. Ho charged that in passing the electoral hill the Democrats of the House had been ignorantly or corruptly recreant to tho confidence imposed in them, .and fuithlees to the trusts confided in them. The order submitted by Mr. Field was finally adopted, and soon afterward the Senate joined the House in joint convention for the purpose of proceeding with the electoral count. Florida was counted for Hayes, Georgia and Indiana for Tilden, Illinois, Iowa and Kansas for Hayes, and Kentucky for Tilden. Three certificates from Louisiana were presented: 1. For HayeB electors, signed by Governor Kellogg. 2. For Tilden electors, signed by McEnery, as Governor. 3. For Hayes electors, authenticated toy Secretary of State. Senator McDonald submitted objections to the Hayes certificates on the following grounds : That the! Hayes electors were not duly elected; that Kellogg, who signed the certificate, was not Governor; that the Returning Board was without Jurisdiction on account of fe-fusing to lilt a vacancy; that a true compilation of votes would 'have Bhown Tilden's election; that the Board had ottered to sell the vote of Louisiana; and that tw of the .Republican elector? held offices of trust under .the United States. Mr. Gibson submitted objection to the Hayes certificates on the following grounds : That the Louisiana (Government was not Republican; that the talleged canvass was fraudulent and void, and that some of the Republican electors were ineligible on account of holding State offices. Mr. Woodsubiuitted an objection to the Hayes certificates uu the ground thlt the electors were not elected as provided by the Legislative. Mr. Howe submitted an objection to the Tildpn .certificate on the ground that there was no .oidenee that tho Tilden electors had been uppuinted according to law, while there was conclusive evidence that they were not; and 'that there was no evidence that McEnery 'was Governor, while there was conclusive evidence that Kellogg was Governor, and was recognized as Governor by all the State and National departments. The Louisiana cer- tificates, with the uccorapanying papers and objections, were referred to tie Electoral v'louimissiou, and the Senate returned to its chamber The House amended its rules so as .'O provide that, pending the electoral count, aM when the House is not engaged therein, it shall proceed at twelve o'ctock on each calcldar day, after recess from th day preceding, with businesi as though the legislative day n'sri expired by adjournment. Indications for Tennessee and Ohio Vol-,ley Continued northeast winds, veering to leasterly; colder, followed by warmer and partly cloudy weather and rising barometer. tijile of Jarne Uordou Bennett's Kennel. Mr. James Gordon Bennett's kennel was old in New York on Wednesday. A epleDtlid Gordon setter dog, three years old, that coat Mr. Bennett $1000, sold for $26, and a Gordon Better bitch that cost $1000, Bold for $12.50. Four English mastiffs brought from $12 to $14 apiece, while two noble Newfoundland dogs, highly bred, and said to have cost a large sum, sold for a good deal leas than their value. A pug brought $25, while of a lot of spaniels only one brought $25, the other Belling at prices ranging from $15 to $20. The sale took place, it is said, under instructions cabled to this country iby Mr. Bennett, and it is reported that Mr. Bennett's staMi will Boon be Bold un-der the hammer. '"An, parson, I wish I could carry my gdld with roe," said a dying man to hie pastor. "It might melt," was the consoling answer. BY TELEGRAPH TO THE OHIO STATU JOURNAL WASHINGTON. Florida Counted for Hayes and Wheeler. Georgia, Illinois, lndiana,lowa, Kansas and Kentucky Disposed of. Louisiana Certificates Referred to the Electoral Commission,Which Will Proceed to Business at Eleven o'clock To-day. Why the Illinois Certificate Was Not Objected to. Full Report of tbe Action in Joiut fjoiivention, And a Comprehensive Statement of Ob' jeotions to the Louisiana Certificates. Proceedings of (lie Electoral Coin uiiaHlon. Washington, Feb. 12. The Electoral Commission was culled to order at 4:30 p. m., and received the certificates and accompanying papers in the .case of Louisiana from the presiding officer of the joint session. Upon arrival of the various counsel, Field, Campbell, Trumbull, Carpenter, Merrick, Hoadly and Green for the Democratic side of the question, and Evarts, Matthews, Shellabarger and Stoughton for the Republicans, the presiding Justice inquired who would represent the ob jectors. Mr. Field responded that Senator McDonald, and Mr, Jeuks, of the House, would appear as objectors to certificates Nob. 1 and 3. Mr. Evarta announced that Mr. Howe, of the Senate, and Mr. Hurlbut would appear as objectors to certificate No. 2. The Commission adjourned until 11 a. in. to-morrow. Why No Objection Was Hails to Illinois.Washington, Feb. 12. Representative Springer had prepared objections to counting the vote of George 1). Chaffee, one of the Hayes electors of Illinois, on the ground that Chaffee was a Commissioner of the Circuit Court of the Uniled States within and for tbe Southern District of Illinois at the time of his appointment as elector, and at the time of hie voting, on the 6th of December. Springer was iu possession of record evidence of the fact, duly certified by the court, and with a further certificate that Chaffee had not resigned, and waa Blill exercising the functions of the ottice. Springer was advised that a case equally as clear as that of Chaffee would be presented to the Commission iu Louisiana, a case which would thus obtain .the decision by tbe Com-mission, and afterward by the two houses. If objections were filed to Chaffee this Commission could not decide the case, as there is only one certificate from j that State. Besides, the Senate might re-fust) to sustain the objection to Chaffee's vote, and this refusal might prejudice the decisiop in the case of the ineligible elector iu Louisiana. Hence Springer, with the advice and approbation of his friends, withheld his objection to Chaffee's vote. MincellaueouH from the National Capital. CALL i'OR BEBEMPTION. Washington, Feb. 12. The acting Secretary of the Treasury to-day issued the thirty ninth call for the redemption of 5 20 bonds of 1865, May and November. The call is for ten millions, of which seven millions are coupons and three millionB TegiBtered bonds. The principal and interest will be paid at the Treasury on and aftef the 12th of May next. Interest ceases ou i'uat day. Following are descriptions of the bonds: Coupons of $500 No. 3161 to 3580, both inclusive; $1000 No. 70,-551 to 79,000, both inclusive. Kegister-ed bonds of $50 No. 41 to 450, both inclusive; $100 No, 5301 to 5950, both inclusive; $500 No. 3601 to 3800, both inclusive; $1000 No. 18,351 to 14,800, both inclusive; $5000 No. 5101 to 5350, both inclusive; $10,000 No. 9301 to 9750, both inclusive. SOUTHERN pacific railroad. The Department of the Interior has received a certificate of the completion of the fifty-mile section of the Southern Pacific railroad in California, oil the Yuma division, and two sections of twenty miles each on the Tulare division. The Commissioners report that the road is progressing eastward, and the track will probably cross the Colorado river at Fort Yuma, into Arizona, by (be middle of March. XI.IVIU Congress Second Nesxlou. Washington Feb. 12. SENATE. The session was resumed at 10 o'clock, Willi but few Senators present. In response to a question of Mr. Davis, President Ferry said it would not be in order to take a recess except on a question raised in joint convention. No business waB transacted up to noon, the Senate awaiting notification from the House thnt that body was ready to resume joint session to continue tbe count. At 2i20 the Clerk of the House appeared at the Bar of the Senate and announced the decision of the House that the counting of tbe vote of Florida shall not proceed in conformity with the decision of the Electoral Commission, and also notified the Senate that the House was now ready to meet the Senate in mint meeting. Tue Senate then proceeded to tbe hall of the House. The Senate returned to its chamber about 4:25 p. m., when legislative business was re surud. Mr. Mitchell, from the committee on Triv ileees and Elections, submitted a resolution providing for tbe issue of an attachment for Conrad C. Jordan, Cashier of the Third National Bank of New York, he having failed to appear before the committee and produce the accounts of Samuel J. Tilden, William T. Pelton and A. B. Hewitt with that bank. Mr. Saulsbury objected to the considera tion ot the resolution to-aay, ana it was laid aver nntil to-morrow. He said be objected tfi the resolution because it was not reported by unanimous consent of the committee on Privileges and Elections, Besides there were matters connected with it which should be inquired into before any such resolution waa By unanimous consent it was understood that no business should be transacted by tbe Senate between 10 and 12 o'clock a. m. during the time the Electoral Commission have the Louisiana case under consideration. The Senate then went into Executive session. When the doors were re-opened it took a recess till 10 o'clock to-morrow. HOUSE. The session was resumed at 10 o'clock. Mr. McOrary rose to open discussion on the objection to the decision of the Electoral Commission. Mr. Clymer raised the point that there was no quorum present. It was then agreed that debate should not begin til 10. At that hour Mr. Field offered the following: Ordered, That counting the electoral vote from Fforida shall not proceed in conformity with the decision of the Electoral Commission, but that the votes of Call, Tounge, Hilton and Bullock be counted as the votes from the State of Florida, for President and Vice President. Mr. Hale moved an amendment: Ordered, That the counting of the electoral vote from the State of Florida shall proceed in conformity with the decision of the Electoral Commission. Mr. Knott offered as a substitute an order reciting the language of the Electoral act, that the Commission might inquire into such petitions, depositions and other papers as shall by the Constitution and now existing law be competent ; reciting also the fact that in the Florida case the Commission had de cided and determined that no evidence would be received and considered which had not been submitted to the two houses joint convention by the President of the Senate; tnat certincate NO. l, mat ot me Hayes electors, contained no evidence what ever, while certincates noi. i ana i, ot the Tilden electors, did contain evidence, fully and specifically showing that the latter had been duly elected and appointed as electors; and therefore ordering that the decision of tbe Commission and grounds thereof be re manded and recommitted to the Commission, with a request that the same be so corrected as explained: and that the Commission be further requested to furnish in detail tho true reasons ot its aecisioD, so tnat tne House may be enlightened as. to the course it ought to pursue in the disebnrge of its duties, and that in the meantime the votes of the Hayes electors be not counted. Mr. Hale made a point of order that un der the Electoral Commission law it was the imperative duty of the House, at the end of the two hours debate, to vote on the main question, which was whether the votes should be counted iu conformity with the decision, and that nothing in the shape of delay, in whatever way presented, could now arrest the wheels ot its decision. Mr. !Wilson- of Iowa added to Mr. Hale s point ot order tnat tne House couia reter nothing to the Commission that would re quire at least concurrent action. Mr. wood ot new lorK declared tnat any intimation of a desire on the part of the Democratic side ot the House to interpose any factious opposition to any decision of the electoral Commission was entirely gratuitous and unsupported by anything that bad taken place. Mr. Hale -Has anything been said this morning to indicate any charge of that kind ? Mr. Wood The gentleman has just spoken of delay, and has intimated that there is an intentional disposition on tne part ot me Mouse to delay action. 1 can assure tue gentleman that there is no such intention. While we are ready, in good faith, to carry out in nil respects the Electoral Commission law, and the result that may be reached in pursuance of it, still at the same time we de mand the right ot tree expression ot opinion. Dir. Knott contested tne point ot order, and thought there was nothing in tbe law wtiicu prevented tne House, witn the con currence of the Senate, from remanding back to the Electoral Commission for their further consideration the decision which it had made in the Florida case, in order that it might have an opportunity to explain the glaring inconsisteucies which existed in that decision.Mr. Banks said that under the provisions of the electoral act the House waa compelled to give tin affirmative or negative vote on the decision of the Commission. It would not be respectful to the Commission to remand the decision to it. The Speaker overruled tbe point of order made by Mr. Hale, but sustained Uat made by Mr. Wilson, holding that there was nothing in the Electoral Commission law that authorized the recommittal of the question back to the Commission, and also ruling thit it was not competent for one House to refer a bill, or any other matter, to an out side Commission. The substitute offered by Mr. Knott was, therefore, not in order. The House thereupon proceeded to the discussion of the objection to the decision of the Electoral Commission. Mr. McCrary addressed the House in sup port of the report of the Commission. He held that the ruling of the Commission was abundantly supported by the most cogent reasons, and mat to uaye rmeo omerwise would have been to assertjurisdiction to In quire into and overturn tbe action of all mates in the appointment of their electora, and to institute proceedings in the nature of action of quo warranto to try the title of every one ot the persons appointed as such. The bill of 1800, drafted, reported and advo- oaud by John Marshall, afterward uniet Justice of the United States, embodied tbe views of that great constitutional lawyer upon this question. After providing fur this grand committee, it defined their jurisdiction in these words: "And the persons thus chosen shall form joiut committee, and shall have power to examinejnto all disputes relative to the election of President and Vice President, of the United Slates, other than such as might relate to the nurnbsr of votes by wnicn electors may nave been appoinieu. If n lodgment in an interior oourt in rlon- dn, ruudered on tbe 27th of January, in an action of quo warranto, could annul tho vote ot thai state, cast on the btn or De cern be r, it followed that similar judgments, in any or all other States, might be certified to tne f resident ot tne senate, and must irove n the count. Hewantedtoknow if bv an ex pott facto judgment in one State, one party snoutu Becure an advantage, wny oy a similar movement in another State, a corresponding advantage might not be sought for by auother party, and claimed as a result ot bucu a policy tuui tuen, insteau of counting the votes under the Constitution and law at the time prescribed, it would be come necessary to count the judgments quo warranto rendered in the various States, and enter into innuirv as to the regularity and conclusiveness ot these judicial proceedings. There mult be authority somewhere and at some time to decide who wire appointed electors, and the only safe, or sound, or Constitutional rule that could be found was that udopted by the Commission, to-wit: That the decision made by the proper State au-thoritv. prior to the time fixad by the Con' stitution and law for electing President and Vice President of the United States, was final, and not subject to be set aside by Con gress. The power of Congress was to count, not to reiect. duly certified votes ot states. Mr. Tucker followed on tbe opposite side. He said the members of the Commission had taken the oath to render judgment according to the Constitution ana law. Tbe Com mission, in passing on the eligibility of Humphreys, bad declined to pass on tbe question of tbe validity of the vote of an incompetent elector. Did tbe Commission mean to decide that ineligibility of an elector was to have no effect on the validity ot bis vote it the state appointed an ineligi' ble elector? Was he, notwithstanding, to be declared by the Commission and by the two houses to be a competent elector, and bis vote to be a valid vote? If so, then the act of the CanvasBlng Board Of the State was valid, and tbe Constitution, cuod hoc, wasvoH. In regard to the main Question tbe decision of the Commission waa to the effect that the only yoice permitted to speak for a State in the matter of a Presi dential election was the voice ot a canvass-inc board, and of an executive, and that tbe voice of the judiciary and Legislature must be hushed into silence. He contended that, all the organism of a State must speak its voice. The debate was continued by Messrs, Banks and Frye, in favor of the report of tne uommissiou, and Messrs. springer and nuru iu uppuuiLiuu. Mr. Carr said: I have no hesitancy saying that my convictions are that under me palpable tacts behind the Governor ) certincate the vote of the State of Florida should have been returned for Tilden and HendrickB; but, sir, at the same time I hold that the Democratic majority of this House has no moral right to complain that this Commission has rendered a partisan decision in reporting the tour electoral votes Florida for Hayes and Wheeler. While assert that this decision is contrary to the tacts ana contrary to tne win or a large majority of the people of the United States, yet I as boldly assert that the wrong is charge able to a cause further back than tbe Commission. The wrong rests upon the shoulders ot those who established this par tisan tribunal. When the Democratic ma- jority of this House adopted the law, with a lull Knowledge mat tne majority ot tue uommission would be uepuoucan, governed oy Republican instincts, controlled by re publican interests, warned by Republican biases, ana movea oy rtepublican motives. thev deliberately abandoned every claim which the Democratic masses asserted to the control of our National affairs. The Com missioners have done no more nor less than what could or should have been expecled or required of them. You erected a political tribunal, invested it witn political attributes, and gave tnnm political questions to determine, which they have settled from a politi cal standpoint. Being Republican, they believed mat tue Republican candi date for the Presidency was and ought to be elected. In making their declaration they have been true and faithful to their political sentiments, education and as sociations, fto legal wrong can attach to them for this, but when you, as Democrats, deliberately put such power over such Ques tions in tho hands of a tribunal so constructed, you commit a bold and darincr wrong to your pretended political convictions, and as suredly to your political associates, whose political sentiments and rights you betrayed and auandoned to your political adversaries, I arise to re'uind the Democratic majority that in common decency your votes on this measure have estopped you from indulging iu even one word of criticism against the de cision ot that tribunal. Mrs, it is your own offspring. You biought it into being. You gave it lite and power, and you alone are responsible for the result. It is no excuse for you to assert that you did not anticipate such a result; that you expected higher and better things trom your toundling. i ou had no more right to expect a tribunal bo constituted to produce a different result than to expect a thorn bush to bring forth hgs. Nor will so weak an apolosry savt you from the just condemnation which your betrayed and outraged constituency will forever heap upon your treacnerous neacis. Laughter acd applause.l No, sirs, the wrong is a great and burning outrage. It lies at your hands, and your hands alone. Nor will the Democratic people be slow in ascertaining tne true source ot their discomfiture and defeat. It may subserve vour purpose for a brief time to attempt to shield your selves unuer cover or me nouow denuncia tions of your tribunal, as the cry of "stop thief" for a moment may delude the officers of the law, but when the mad populace shall have vented unmerited anger upon this tribunal for a brief hour, it will seek the true object of its just indignation, and the blame will at last lie where it properly belongs. Tbe few only who had moral courage to stand here upon this floor, and amid the derision and contumely of the Democratic majority, dared to warn you of the inevitable results cf that day's work, nave tbe moral right to complain ot the end of this day's labor; but, sirs, while they have deep regrets as to the action of the Commission, they have deep and bitter de nunciations and condemnation to heap upon the heads of those who, claiming to be leaders of the great Democratic party, in this trying hour of its existence, have provetlJbeniselveB either incompetent from iguoranco or unworthy for base reasons. Renewed laughti r and applause on the Republican side Here, then, in the name of the Democracy of the whole country, I ab solve that Commission from all charges, save it may be that of an honest mistake, and iu the name of the same great power I denounce the mnjurity of this Home as being responsible for the wrong and recreance, ignorantly or corruptly recreant to the confidence which has been imposed in them, and faithligs to the trusts confided iu them. Applause. After Mr. Carr's speech, Mr. Walker, of Virginia, said he was one of the Democrats who had supported the electoral b-ll in good faith, and be would say to the gentleman from Indiana (Carr) that it would t?.ko more than him and a few Democrats who voted with him against that measure to read the majority of the House out of the Democratic party. Mr. r- leld said the decision ot this tribunal, as it has been made, is entitled to no respect. it is as unfounded in morals as it is unfound ed in law, and injurious and pernicious in its (Oi Si qtieuces. The spectacle of successful villainy is corrupting in proportion to the extent of the theater on which it is enacted, and to the prize which it wins. The Presidency oi I he United States has never yet been won by fraud. If it is won now, the example will be more injurious to our good name, and more corrupt to our people than all the speculations, the robberies and frauds of all our history. Tne debate closed at no, and the House proceeded to voto. Mr. Hale's amendment wasreiected 97 to 167, and Mr. Field's resolution was adopted. It wai then ordered that the Clerk inform the Senate of tho action of the House, and also that the Hou;e is now ready to meet the Senate in lue bull ot the House. At 2:25 p. in. the Senators arrived and took their places. The presiding officer rose audsuid: ' The joint meeting of Congress resumes its session. The two hous e sepa rately have considered and determined the objection submitted by a member of the nouse iu iqe uuc-ision oi ine commission on the certificates from the State of Florida. The Clerk of the Senate will now read the decision of the Senate. The decision of the Senate having been read by its Cleik, and that of tbe House by its Clerk, the presiding officer said : "The two bouses not concurring in ordering otherwise, the decision of the Commission will stand unreversed. The counting will uow proceed in conformity with the decision of the Commission. The tellers will announce the vote of Florida." Senator Allison, one of the tellers, there upon announced that the State of Florida had given four votes for R. B. Hayes of Ohio, as President, and fonr votes for William A. Wheeler, of New York, as Vice I, ' r reameui. The Vice President then onened the cer tificate from the State of Georgia, and banded it to the tellers. It was read by Representative Cook, of Georgia. The presiding officer asked whether there was any objec tion to me vote ot Ueorgia. None being made be announced that the vote would be counted and directed the tellers to declare it. Mr. Cook then declared that the State of Georgia bad given 11 votes for Samuel J. Tilden, of New York, as President, and 11 votes for Thdmas A. Hendricks, of Indiana, as Vice President. Next followed, in succession, the State of Illinois, witnzi votes tor Hayes and Wheeler; Indians, with 15 votes for Tilden and Heudncks; Iowa, with 11 votes for Hayes and Wheeler; Kansas, with 5 votes for Hayes apdWheelet; and Kentucky, with 12 votes for Tilden and Hendricks. Then came tbe certificate from the State of Louisiana, snowing eight votes for Hayes and Wheeler, the presiding officer stating that tbe certincate nad been received by mail, and that no corresponding one had been received by messenger. The messenger appointed for that purpose was Thomas C. Anderson, one oi me Returning Board, This was authenticated by Kelloirn- as Gov ernor, he being himself one of the electors. ' Tbe certificate having been read, the nre- Biding officer handed to the tellere another certificate trom tne same State, with a corresponding one received by mail, showing eight votes for Tilden and Hendricks. This was authenticated by McEnery as Governor of tbe State. Still a third certificate was opened and read, corresponding with on having been received by mail, with votes for Hayes and Wheeler, authenticated by Des Londe, Secretary of State. The presiding officer opened and presented another certificate, received by mail, nofcorresponding one having been received by ruessenger. Mr. Stone, one of the tellers, proceeded to read it, butit wasobvinus I rum th first sentence it was a mere burlesque. It 'commenced by certifying that John Smith bad been chosen elector from the First district; John Smith,' No. 1, from the Second ; John Smith, No. 2, from the Third ; John Smith, No. 3, from the Fourth; John nmitn. No. i, trom the I' ltlli; John Smith, NoiB, from the Sixth ; and John Smith, A ami John Smith B, eleclotors at laige. When the calling had proceeded thus far MrlSargent rose.and said it was obvious that tuul certincate was not bona tide. Toe presiding officer said it was his duty to submit all papers received by him. He asked whether the paper should be suppressed. Voices No; read it. The reading was proceeded with, to tbe great amusement ot tne audience, ft followed the usual formali ties, showing that John Smith had been only cnosen as cnairman, and Jonn smith o as aergeant-at-Arms, and that John Smith No, 1 and John Smith A were appointed tellers: that eight votes of the State had been cast tor .Peter Coooer. ot New York, and Sam uarr. At this stage of the reading Senator Mc Donald suggested that the two houses should not be compelled to listen to the readinir ine presiding otticer directed tbe address on the envelope to be read. It read: "To the Vice President of the United Suites, Washington: vote of the Electoral Collece of tne State of Louisiana for President and Vies President 1876." He then directed the telleis to proceed with the reading. After a few more sentences had been read, Mr. Hoar inquired whether the Chair held that it was not iu order to dispense with the further reading ot the paper. ine presiding omcer said that lie asKed unanimous consent, but that objection had oeen made. Mr. Hoar reauired that any person object ing should rise in his place and do so. Mr. Miller (rising) As this is a burlesque act, I object. the reading was then proceeded with to us close, it purporting to be signed by John Bmitn, uompany no. i. Bulldozers, uovern- or of Louisiana, and winding up with the motto : "aucn is life in Louisiana " Subsequently the nresidine? officer directed tne paper to be omitted trom tbe proceed ings of the joint convention. senator McDonald submitted an obiection to the Haves and Wheeler certificates. The objection waB based on the ground that the nayes electors bad not been duly elected; that their election had been certified by imam r. Kellogg, wno claimed to be but was not in tact tiovernor ot the State of Louisiana; and because the Returning Board was without jurisdiction for tbe reus in that the laws ot Louisiana conlerred no power on the Returning Board to canvass and compile votes, since they were constituted by four of nve persons required by law, since these tour were oi tue same political party, and since there was a vacancy in said Board which the four members bad refused to fill ; because the four members of the Returning Board had full knowledge that the true compila- lon ot the votes would have Bhown that the Tilden electors had been duly elected ; because ; said boai d had offered for money to sen tne vote ot Louisiana, ana because H. a Levy and H. Brewster hid held offices of trust under the United States at the time of their appointment as electors. The objection is signed by McDonald, Saulsbury, Bogy, Senators, and Jenks, Gibson, Tucker, ltllis ana Morrison, members. Mr. Gibson also sent up olnections to the Hayes and Wheeler certificates because: list, tne government or Louisiana was not Republican in form; second, no canvass was made on which tho certificates of election were issued; third, au alleged canvaes ot votes was an usurpation, fraudulent and old; tonrin, some ot the electors were inel igible by tho laws of Louisiana, and were disqualified from being electors or holding State offices, Kellogg being acting de facto Governor, JoHVain Supervisor of Registration, Marks District Attorney, and burch a member of the State Senate, a member of the Board or Control ot the State of Peniten tiary, and administrator of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, and Treasurer ot the School Board ot East Baton Rouge; and because JoD'rain was specially disqualified by the thirteenth section of the act of the Legislature, July, 1874, which provides that no Supervisor of Registration shall be eligible to any office at that election; and because Jolfrain was at the Inst election Supervisor of Registration for the parish of Point Coupee. This objection was signed by Senators Saulsbury, McDonald and Teller, and Representatives Jenks, Tucker, Gibson, Field, Levy and Lgbort. Mr. Wood, ot New York, submitted a further objection to the Hayes and Wheeler certificates, on the ground that the electors were not elected as providedjby the Legislature.Mr. Howe submitted sa objection to the ilden and Hendricks certificates on the ground that there was no evidence that those electors pad been appointed in such manner as the Legislature directed, while there was evidence conclusive in law that either of them had been so appointed: also, on the ground that there was no evidence that McEnery was Governor of jouisiana in the year 1876. while there was conclusive evidence that Keilogj was during the year 1876, and for several years nor thereto, tiovernor of that State, and was recogniaed as such by the Judicial and Legislative departments of Louisiana and by all departments of the Government of the United States '1 he Presiding Officer " Are there further objectiuns to the vote of the State of Louisiana f" Alter a pause: "There be ing no further objection, all tho certificates trom that state, with the papers accompanying the same, together with the ob jections, will now be submitted to the Electoral uommission tor nulumeet and decision. Tbe Senate will now withdraw to its chamber." The Senate thereupon withdrew. Mr. Cox, from the committee on Rules. reported back a resolution so amending the rules of the House that pending the count of the electoral vote, and when the House is not engaged therein, shall, on assembling every calendar day, after recess from the day preceding, proceed at twelve o'clook with its business as though the legislative day had expired by adjournment. He explained that there were but seventeen working days oeiore me enu or me session; that there were eleven of the regular appropriation bills undisposed of; that there were 241 bills on the privatp calendar and fifty on tho public calendar; that there were thirty special orders; that the bill to pay intereston the public debt of the District of Columbia and the Missisiippi levee bill were before the House, and that iu order to get through this mass or business the resolntion should be adopted. After being amended so as to prevent the uaviuuuu iiuiu unci teruitr in any way niiu tne counting ot the electoral votes, it waB adopted, and the House took a recess till ten o'clock to-morrow. Moody and Nanbry Invited to Cincinnati.Cincinnati, Feb. 12. At a meeting of tue Jrivangelical Ministerial Associa tion to-day a total attendance of nearly 17,000 was reported at revival meetings during tbe pant month, and the General committee was urged to exercise diligence in Becuring the presence of Moody and Sankey for a series of meetings next fall, Burned to Deatb. Omaha, Feb. 12. Caroline Lambert, aged iui years, died this afternoon. Th morning, while dressing a sore arm with kerosine, she spilled some on her clothes, which she accidentally ignited. She was burned almost to a crisp. Mardl Gris. Memphis, Feb. 12. The number of visitors already here la unparalleled in the history of this city. All the leading illustrated papers have reoreaentativpa here and a number of the prominent morning papers. LITTLEFEELD. Ira n. Ulrrord Cornea to tbe From How (be I.onlnlaBH t'lcrfc Wickered With tbe nemoerata. ( memo, Feb. IIS. The Journal's Davenport, Iowa, special saya Hon. Jra M. Oirlbid, who Clerk Littlefield swore tnertd him money to go to Washington with the Vernon parish return, Baying he couiu get SIUU.UUO trom tbe National Ke publican oommitleefor the suppression of tnat evidence, this morning publishes a denial ot tne Btory. He says Latlleheld vainly tried to Bell out tohim. Littlefield said prominent Democrats, including uovemor fufmer, bad approached him and offered him large sums of money to disclose what he knew of the Returning fioarcl. lie neinga Kenubucan. however. preferred to keep silence for a less sum than the Democrats offered, tiovernor Palmer approached him in various wavn, and intimated that he could get $100,000 for his information. Gilford says he is ready to make these statements under oath. Revenue ltlfnciiHies In Norlb Caro lina. New York, Feb. 11. A North Caro-lina special says : While the United Slates CominiHsioner, Capt.W. G. B. Morris, waH engaged in the trial of Walker Newman for alleged violation of the revenue laws, with .Deputy Marshals Harkins and Mer rill in attendance, the court was startled by tbe sound ot firearms, and in a few mo ments the house was surrounded by armed men who began indiscriminate firing into the room. The Commissioner and Captain Merrill Med, but Captain Harkins drew his revolver and fired upon his as sailants, wounding one named risber. In turn he was Bhot down and would have been killed but for Newman and George Kliodes. finher was brought to the Hen dersonville jail, His brothers made an attack later upon the jail, but were put to night, Willi a loss of Wash, .Fisher mor tally wounded. Coal complication. WlLKRSliAKBE. Pa . Feb. 12. The an nouncement here at headquarters "that the Lehigh and Wilbeabarre Coal company had applied tor a Receiver was not entirely unexpected, though the mines will be worked as usual. Philadelphia, Feb. 12. It is under stood E. W. Clark will act aa .Receiver of the Lehigh and WiJkesbarre Coal com pany and Chancellor Williamson and the Secretary of the company as assignees. There are rumors that a Receiver has been appointed for the New Jersey Central railroad. ItalloonlNl Iu Trouble. Memphis, Feb. 12. Considerable ap prehension is felt for the safety of Pro fessor King, of Philadelphia, who made an ascension in a mammoth balloon from this city at five o'clock this after noon. When last seen the balloon was going in the direction of Little Rock, over Arkansas bottom, and he will be forced to stay up all night, as the night is dark and tbe wind high. )nMeuNions Louisville, Feb. 12 T. Walston and Messrs. W. H. Walker&Co., large whisky firms, have suspended. Liabilities of Walston, $90,000; assets, $70,000; Walk er's not known, The trouble of tho last named firm waa brought about by the failure of Walston and others. They hope Boon to resume. Hotel Change lu Clncluuiill. Cincinnati, Feb. 12. Mr. A. G Coone, formerly of the Grand Hotel, has, purchased Mr. James L,yn s luterest in theUurnet House. The new firm will be known as Dinkle, Sayler& Coone. BY MAIL AND TELEGRAPH. The President has nominated Richard A. Watts for United States Attorney for Wyoming. At Memphis, yeBterday, twenty thou sand people witnessed the opening Mardi Gras ceremonies. Mrs. Gottlieb Vogele was horribly mangled by dogs, near Newport, Ken tucky, Saturday night. Deputy Marshal H. H. Hughes waa killed while attempting to make an arrest near Independence, Missouri, on Satur day. In New York, Saturday night, Fred Herlfelder, aged eighteen, was stabbed and killed by William Aberaty, aged nineteen. The Circuit Court has issued a final de cree giving the city of St. Louis all the works and properly of the gas company, and $40,000. The Treasury Department has pro hibited the importation of neat cattle and hides from Germany, ou account of tne rinderpest. A dispatch from Carterville, Geoigia, announces the killing of Lieutenant Mc- Intyre, ot the second Infantry, by illicit distillers in ambush. James L. Johnson, formerly a member of Congress from the Second district of Kentucky, committed suicide yesterday by Bbooting himself. Ill health is assigned as the came of the act, Samuel Smith, a farmer, was robbed near Franklin, Indiana, Saturday night, by John Cochran. Smith's skull was broken, and he will probably die Boon. Cochran has not been captured. The engineers examining the founda tions of the Washington monument, will suggest the tearing down of the present structure, and the removal of the stones, to the circle at Massachusetts avenue and Fourteenth street. Tbe Burlington Hawkeye humorist pro nounces the rumor that he was about to start a paper of his own as a base fabrica tion of bis enemies. He makes an em phatic denial, and says : "Fie has had it, He had all he wanted of it. So had the sheriff." The New Jersey Central railroad is financial difficulties. Its capital stock is $20,500,000, and it has paid dividends on this, since ISbU, amounting to $14,4UO,000: yet the greedy recipients of these divi dends now refuse to come forward and lend the road $3,000,000 to put it on its teet again. A Washington dispatch to the Pittsburg Commercial sbvb: Party leaders have been looking over the political situation and the state of legislative business, and the concluBion is becoming more general every day that, at the present rate of pro gress, it will be impossible to finish up the more urgent business of Congress, and that an extra session is inevitable. This will, doubtless, be called in a couple of days. William Green, convicted of the murder of his half brother, Samuel Marshall, was hanged at Pittsburg yesterday. On tbe scaffold he spoke a few words, and exhorted thoso present to put their truBt in God, as he had done! He thanked the jail warden and his spiritual advisers for their kindness, and Baid he hoped to meet therp all in heaven. He said : "The Lord Jesus Christ is waiting to receive my soul, and my heart is faxed on him, Oblo, IgnatiuB Fucbs, a notorious receiver of stolen goods, has been convicted In Cleveland, and will be sentenced to imprison ment in the Penitentiary this week, unless his case should be carried to a higher court. About 2 o'clock Sunday morning a fire was discovered in the job printing and iiook-binding establishment oi Sullivan x Parsons, in Zanesville, The buiidm und contents were entirely destroyed; in mired for $1500. The Morning Times was also printed in tbe same building, They lost all their type and material, on which they had insurance of $1000. The Morning Times will be issued from the Courier office for the present. Wishing to take every precaution for tbe safety ot audiences occupying the premises and for tbe protection of his property, Mr. A. C. Black, proprietor of the Upera House, has juat erected, com manding the whole space included in the stage, a system of copper sprinkling pipes, three in number, extending tne whole diatance crosswise the building, between and above the Hies, lhese pipes are con nected with a forty barrel tank under the roof, kept constantly filled, and are per forated thickly with small holes. By simply pulling a wire and fastening it to nook at one side of the Btage floor a fine spray ib thrown id every direction drenching scenery, Hies, furniture and all almost instantly, lbe pipes are ot cop per to guard against rust, and a second cistern ot W barrels capacity on the op posite Bide of the stage, can be connected with the one supplying the pipes, if neces nary, besides having a hose attachmen upon the stage. When the sprinkling apparatus waa tested the other day tho ahower which fell waa ' too much of a good thing," as the stage was speedily soaked iu every nook and corner. It is believed tnat danger from lire, directly, is tnus overcome and people may occupy the house to its full seating capacity, without fear of disaster from that source. On all occasions, in any public assem blage, if a panic is started the safest thing to do is to keep your seat. ispnnaheld Me public. Among the Oakland items in the San .Francisco Post of the 5th is the follow ing : In the Police Court this morning, S. Atkinson was in the prisoner s dock, charged with obtaining money under false pretenses, by means of a check on a bank n Springheld, Ohio, cashed by the Union Gold Bank, of Oakland. It appears that he was acquainted with a young lady who is sojourning at the house of A.C. Henry, tne rresulent ot the bank, and occasion ally vioited her. A week agolaat Saturday Atkinson called at the bank and said that he was short, and wished a small check cashed, saying at the same time that he was a partner of hia father and brother in a hotel in Springfield, Ohio, and that his check was all right. Mr. Henry told him an indorser was necessary, and Atkinson told him that the young lady would indorse for mi. which she, coming in shortly after ward, did. He obtained in this manner $75, and said he would visit the lady that evening, but instead, sent word that he would call on Monday, and failed also to keep this appointment. Instead of going to tne nouse ne went to Sacramento, where ue indulged Ireely in alcoholic stimulants, spent all his money, and telegraphed to Mr. Henry for $75, " to be sent by express. Instead of sending the money, Mr. Henry sent for him, as a telegram had been received from Ohio stating that uo money was there in bank belonging to Atkinson, and that he was a beat. His case will be examined by Judge Jayne on Wednesday next. Foreign. It is stated at Vienna that tbe Powers will probably not answer the Russian circular at all. A London dispatch says the recent crisis in the Roumanian Ministry was caused by the question whether Roumania should form a Russian alliance, or merely permit the Russian army to pass under protest. The Burmingham Post asserts that the Liberal leaders, after consultation, have determined to submit the motion declaring that it is the duty of England, in concert with European powers, or failing in this with Russia alone, to enforce upon Turkey the adoption of the necessary provisions for the security of Christians in the disturbed districts. CKILLIC0THE. Official Changes-Quiet at tbe Lutheran Cburcb Burglary. Chillicothe, Feb. 12, To the Editor of the Ohio Btate Journal : President William H. Scott, of the Ohio University, will lecture on "The Need of the Hour," at the Walnut Street Church, Thursday evening. The attendance at the entertainments given by Deakin's Liliputian burlesque troupe was large, and as yet we have heard nothing but good epoken of the performances. (Jol. fid win fearson, the Democratic County Clerk elect, to-day enters upon the routine of bis duties. His sureties are Messrp. L. G. Delano, W. A. Way- land and J. J. Vanmeter. Mr. Frank J. Esker, the efficient retiring Clerk, has ac-cepled the position of Deputy Sheriff, We are told that QUO car loads of cotton in expected to pass over the Marietta and Cincinnati railroad during the present week. Also, that upward of 4000 cars of other freight are to pass through here lnsido of the next tour weeks. All was quiet and serene at the German Lutheran Church on Sunday, and, from all accounts, "not a wave of trouble rolled across their peaceful breasts." We observed policemen sauntering in the vicinity, but as nothing occurred to mar the harmony of the meeting, their services were not required. About the hour of two o'clock Saturday morning lust Chief of Police Joseph IJeuschle, observing a light in Wm. H. Ringwald's grocery, on Paint street, and surmising that all was not right, organized hiniKi'lf into an investigating committee. His efforts were realized in the capture of a ten-year-old half-witted colored urchin named Will Jackson, who had juat emerged from the rear door with a paper sack "crammed" full of groceries amounting to three or four dollars. Mayor Mick bound hiin over to court in the huiu of $300; failing to obtain bail, he was placed in jail. Benidea pleading guilty, he also acknowledged himself as having been the person who entered the same place last full and stole a silver watch and thirty dollars worth of Dayton and Southeastern railroad notes. The former he threw into Paint creek and the latter he burned up. Nontbern democrats. The Washington 6orrespondeut of the Pittsburg Commercial says : It is very evident, from the opinions expressed even by ultra Democrats, that the Democrats feel that the responsibility of prolonging the Presidential controversy Would bring down such a force of con demnation by the industrial interests of the country, by Increasing the uncertainty and necessitating a new election, that they would gain nothing in the long run. The Southern Democrats show a disposition to act independently in the present emergency. Their past experience has demonstrated that their Northern friends DIED. Abbott In Santa Barbara, California, ou February 6th, Tikotuy D. Adbott, formerly of this city. Cot. Maooii K., wife of James Cole, Mondoy alternoon at 3 o'clock. Funeral services from Wesley- Chapel, Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. 2t Dispatch copy It, New Advertisements. 14th REGIMENT 0. N. G. riA A WILL MEET IN BOARD OF JJ XI Trade Rooms. Wednesday eve ning, February 14th, at 7:30 sharp, for nomination of officers. Company O will meet same time and place. O. S. AMMEL. teoia it" SEAJLEO I'ltOlHMAI.N T7lLL liE RECEIVED A THE OFFICIO TV oi tne city Clerk in Coluinbua, Ohio, Monday, 12th Day March, 18J7, At 12 o'clock noon, for furnishing the materials and doing the following work, lo-wit: ror building an 18-inch imiA kckot in Miu.l alley, from Viuo alley to Swan street; thence in Bwan street to Third street. bush bid must contain the full iiRma ol all tlm parties interested in the same, anil mu8t be ac companied with good and sufficient tecurily that if the bid is accepted t lie contract will tw entered into and the work faithfully performed. The I'lty Council reserves the right to reject any oral! bids, at diacrelion. JOJIAH K1NNEAK, fen'3 City Civil Engineer. are as a party entirely irresnoiisibln and unworthy of confidence. A meas ure is now on foot look in a to h coalition which will defeat the programme of the Northern Demo crats, if an attempt ia made to prolong the Presidential controversy over the 4th of March. A naner haa been prepared by a leading Southern Demo crat, and it is stated is already signed by loriyiour ooutnern democrats, pledging their voles against proloneini? the Presi. dential contest, provided a sufficient num- lier ot ItepublicaiiB will cast their votea for tho Texas Pacific bill to insure ita lassagc. This can easily be done, as the lends of the bill in both parties have Ireody sufficient strength, if it comes to-a vole, to pass it. Tbe consummation of such an arrangement would undoubtedly be tne beginning of a breaking off of the Democratic party South from the North- rn wing, and would insure a Bpeedy or ganization of a Republican party of the soutn, lea oy the best men of the Demo crats. Field's lan. The Washington correspondent of the inciunati Gazette gives some of the re- ulls of Democratic conference on the situation among them the following hoice gem : One other plan was sueaiated. which ia reported to have come from the fertile, ingenious, desperate, criminal lawyer, Dud- rieia; mat was, mat the Jilectoral Commission should be broken up by securing the resignation of all the Democratic members. It would not suffice that the Democratic JudgeR, for such, moat emphatically, Field and Clifford have proved themselves to be, should resign, The Electoral law provides that, in the case of the death of either of the Judges, the remaining Judges shall immediately fill the vacancies. No other Judges of the Supreme Court then would remain but the two Judges, Swayne and Hunt, who would be eligible, both of whom are Republicans. The Democrats could gain nothing from any Buch experiment. But if the Democratic members of tbe Commission Bhould all resign, the House might absolutely refuse to fill their places, or consume bo much time filibustering, while ostensibly engaged in doing this, as to completely nullify the operations of the Electoral act and Tribunal until March 4. This plan received, it ia understood, the most earnest advocacy of Dudley Field, who claims to be the special representative of Tilden, and to have in charge the Democratic 'party, Nothing cottld be agreed upon definitely, Friday night, at either of their caucuses, except that the debate upon the Florida decision of the Tribunal should not be proceeded with yesterday, and that a recess should be taken until Monday. Meanwhile the plan was that the leaders of the Conference should decide how far they could go with the sinister scheme above referred to; to what extent they could defy the public sentiment of the country which approved the compromise plan, and bow far tbey could rely upon the massing of the Democratic strength of the House in favor of any such revolutionary proceeding. The programme here outlined was executed yesterday; tbe House met at 10 o'clock, and the Democrats moved an additional recess until 1 o'clock, no substantial reason being assigned except the declaration that such was the wish of the majority. CHilo Veteran Volunteer. To the Editor of the Cincinnati Commercial : Bellaib, O., Feb. 8, 1877. I observe that your correspondent from Urba na, in his account of the reunion of the Sixty-sixth Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, published in the Commercial of this date, states that the Sixtysixth regiment "was the first regiment to veteranize." In this my impression is that he is in error. By reference to the report of the Adjutant General of Ohio for the year 1864, 1 find that "the Twenlythird Regiment, Colonel R. B, Hayes commanding, was the first regiment in which re-enlistments began to be made, commencing as early as October, 1863, This regiment reorganized as a veteran regiment at Staunton, June 11, 1864, while on the famous Hunter raid." The number of veterans furnished by each regiment was very near equal, the Twentytbird furnishing 257, and the Sixty- sixth furnishing zb). In this connection it is interesting to recall the fact that the Thirlyninth regiment, Colonel E. F. Noyes commanding, furnished a larger number of veterans than any other regiment in the service from Ohio, its number being 534. B. R. C. Nlicrinieu ItPinocrnllc Trickery. Heeial Dispatch to the New York Times.) Washington, Feb. 10. The Congressional Record for to-day, which consists of no less than 200 pages, was not issued until late in the forenoon. It in mainly taken up by the report of Mr. Morrison's Louisiana committee. As was generally expected, it is a highly colored partisan document, which speaks of murders and outrages with the evident intention of trying to conceal them, and attempts to prove that the vote of the State was cast, and Bhould be counted, for Tilden and the Democratic State officers. George M. Beebe, of New York, is among tbe signers of the report. The document is printed in the Record bo-cause the appropriation for printing it in the usual form and manner is exhausted. By the trick of sending it to the Record, tho Democrats place their ex parte testimony before the Electoral Commission, while the minority report, made by the Republican members of the committee, is suppressed and not allowed to appear. The first gold discovered in California was at the root of a wild Dnion which a man was pulling for greens.